Well, yes. It is cultural Marxism. You should know, If you paid attention.Look at the colleges, universities. It is all there.

Get out of the basement for a bit of reality. If you can stand it.

You realise you're saying that to someone who literally just got off work at the ninth largest university in the States, who is eating lunch in the middle of the quad, and who has a class in 20 minutes, right?

I think I might be a bit more qualified than most to say this...get out of your basement for a bit of reality, because you clearly have not set foot on a college campus in many, many years. If you could stand it, that is.

We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the young for a long long time."PZ Myers

To virtually everyone here but yourself. FFS, I accused you of parroting a batshit blog that rarely bothers to cite sources and lo and behold, here you are in this thread doing exactly that. Color me surprised.

Your rep has been in the toilet for a long, long time. It's obvious no one takes you seriously anymore. I honestly don't know why you go on.

And so what? The fact that a lot of Americans are idiots is nothing new. And the GOP victory (such as it is) is probably hurting it in the long term, given the widespread disapproval in response to almost every policy change.

Totally missed the point (either POV). With Obama, we got subsidized massively over-priced college students, since 2009 ... total non-dischargeable debt is now over 1 trillion dollars. If the students and their parents weren't financed, most colleges would have gone out of business. And that would have solved the snowflake problem. So indirectly, Obama is responsible. It isn't because we have massive hordes of barbarian immigrants raping our young women ... that is Sweden ;-)

No. The for profit colleges would have gone out of business. Most of the public universities would have done just fine. What Obama should have done is banned those funds from going to the for profit diploma mills. You know, the places that were soaking up 2/3rds of the available funds and delivering substandard services to their customers. The problem with what I say Obama should have done is the president doesn't get to decide who is eligible for that kind of funding. Congress does. For most of Obama's presidency congress was controlled by republicans who believe for profit education (and every other service you can imagine) is better than sliced bread.

We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the young for a long long time."PZ Myers

No. The for profit colleges would have gone out of business. Most of the public universities would have done just fine. What Obama should have done is banned those funds from going to the for profit diploma mills. You know, the places that were soaking up 2/3rds of the available funds and delivering substandard services to their customers. The problem with what I say Obama should have done is the president doesn't get to decide who is eligible for that kind of funding. Congress does. For most of Obama's presidency congress was controlled by republicans who believe for profit education (and every other service you can imagine) is better than sliced bread.

Diploma mills are nothing new. For profit colleges have repeatedly been caught overcharging and underserving. Used to be you could hang out a fake shingle (degree) for a lot less money and effort. But Capitalism has screwed that up too. Public colleges are simply playgrounds for late-teen individuals to blow some steam and hormones ... while spending part of their student loans on Spring Break and beer kegs. If I had a child in college (they are mostly children) and he pulled this kind of stupids ... I would cut him off, tell him to go get a real job. It is hard getting people to grow up ... and hard on the individual trying to achieve parental independence in a mature way. For some kids it is sink or swim, and you lose some to collateral damage. We can always F more of them into existence.